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EDMOND H. MADISON 

(Late a Representative from Kansas) 



MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 

DELIVERED IN THE 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE SENATE 

OF THE UNITED STATES 

SIXTY-SECOND CONGRESS 



Proceedings in the House 
April 14, 1912 



Proceedings in the Senate 
February 8, 1913 



PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Page. 

Proceedings in the House a 

Prayer by Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D 7 

Memorial addresses by — 

Mr. Campbell, of Kansas 9 

Mr. Russell, of Missouri 12 

Mr. Norris, of Nebraska 16 

Mr. Garrett, of Tennessee 19 

Mr. Gardner, of Massachusetts 21 

Mr. Young, of Kansas 23 

Mr. Murdock, of Kansas 29 

Mr. Neeley, of Kansas 34 

Mr. Martin, of Colorado 37 

Proceedings in the Senate 43 

Prayer by Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D 44 

Memorial addresses by — 

Mr. Curtis, of Kansas 47 

Mr. Jones, of Washington 49 

Mr. Bristow, of Kansas 51 



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HON.EDMOND H.MADISON 



DEATH OF HON. EDMOND H. MADISON 



Proceedings in the House 

. Monday, December 4, Wil. 
Mr Campbell. Mr. Speaker, it is with a sense of pro- 
found sorrow that I rise at this time to announce the 
death of Hon. Edmond H. Madison, late a Member of this 
House, at his home in Dodge City, Kans., on the 18th day 
of September last. On the morning of his death he arose 
in apparently his usual health, played cheerfully with 
his grandchildren until breakfast was announced, sat 
down to his morning meal with his family, and then in 
an instant passed away. During his life he enjoyed the 
confidence and esteem of his countrymen. On another 
occasion I shall ask that a day be set apart to pay suitable 

tribute to his memory. 

Mr. Speaker, I offer the following resolution and ask 
for its adoption. 

The Speaker. The Clerk will report the resolution. 

The Clerk read as follows : 

House resolution 309 

Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of Hon. Edmond H. Madison, late a Representative from 
the State of Kansas. 

Resolved, That the Clerk of the House be directed to transmit 
a copy of these resolutions to the Senate. 

The resolution was agreed to. 

The Speaker. The Clerk will read the other resolution. 



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The Clerk read as follows : 

House resolution 312 

Resolved, As a further mark of respect to the memory of the 
late Hon. Edmond H. Madison and the Hon. James P. Latta, the 
House do now adjourn. 

The resolution was agreed to; accordingly (at 2 o'clock 
and 18 minutes p. m.) the House adjourned until to-mor- 
row, Tuesday, December 5, 1911, at 12 o'clock meridian. 

Thursday, February 29, 1912. 

Mr. Campbell. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent 
that Sunday, April 14, be set apart under special order 
for eulogies of the late Alexander C. Mitchell, of the 
second district of Kansas, and of the late Edmond H. 
Madison, of the seventh district of Kansas, late Members 
of this House. I move that that day be set aside for that 
purpose. 

The Speaker. The gentleman from Kansas [Mr. Camp- 
bell] asks unanimous consent that Sunday, April 14, be 
set aside for eulogies of the late Mr. Mitchell and the 
late Mr. Madison, both of Kansas. Is there objection? 
[After a pause.] The Chair hears none, and it is so 
ordered. 

Tuesday. April 2, 1912. 
Mr. Campbell. Mr. Speaker, an order was made some 
days ago setting apart Sunday, the 14th day of April, for 
general memorial services on two late Representatives 
of this House. I want to separate those services, and I 
ask unanimous consent that the 14th of April be fixed 
for memorial services for Edmond H. Madison, late a 
Representative from the State of Kansas, and Sunday, 
April 21, be fixed for the memorial services on the late 
Representative Alexander C. Mitchell, of Kansas. 

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The Speaker. The gentleman I'roni Kansas asks unani- 
mous consent to modify the order of the House, to the 
extent of having Sunday, April 14, set apart for the 
memorial services on the late Representative Madison, 
and Sunday, April 21, for memorial services on the late 
Representative Mitchell. Is there objection? 

There was no objection. 

Sunday. April U, 1912. 

The House met at 12 o'clock noon, and was called to 
order by Mr. Taggart as Speaker pro tempore. 

The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the 
following prayer: 

Our Father in heaven, glorify the service which brings 
us together on' this peaceful Sabbath day by Thy holy 
presence, that we may be purified, exalted, ennobled. 

We thank Thee for the life, character, and achieve- 
ments of the Member in whose memory we are assembled. 
Grant that they may be written in characters of light on 
the pages of history, that others may read and be inspired 
to useful and noble lives. We mourn his loss, but arc 
comforted in the thought that he still lives in some higher, 
nobler existence. Be this the solace to the bereaved wife 
and to those to whom he was bound by the ties of kin- 
ship: 

" For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor 
angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, 
nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any 
other creature shall be able to separate us from the love 
of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Amen. 

The Journal of the proceedings of Saturday, April 13, 
1912, was read and approved. 

Mr. Campbell. Mr. Speaker, I offer the resolutions 
which I send to the Clerk's desk. 



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The Speaker pro tempore. The Clerk will report the 
resolutions. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

House resolution 493 

Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended 
that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of 
Hon. Edmond H. Madison, late a Member of this House from the 
State of Kansas. 

Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the memory 
of the deceased and in recognition of his distinguished public 
career the House, at the conclusion of these exercises, shall stand 
adjourned. 

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
Senate. 

Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to 
the family of the deceased. 

Mr. Campbell. Mr. Speaker, I move the adoption of the 
resolutions. 

The resolutions were agreed to. 



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MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 



Address of Mr. Campbell, of Kansas 

Mr. Speaker: I have asked that the usual business of 
the House be suspended to-day for the sad purpose of 
paying a last tribute to a former Member of this House, 
Edmond H. Madison. 

Judge Madison was born in Illinois in 1865. He came 
of a sturdy and religious stock. His father and mother 
had been pioneers in a new country'. They knew by ex- 
perience what it was to come in contact with plain and 
hard conditions. Judge Madison inherited from his 
parents a rugged character. He had decisive notions 
about the duties of a citizen. He was plain in his tastes, 
honest in his beliefs, modest in his ambitions, and de- 
cidedly practical in all his methods. I have rarely known 
a man in public life who had a more accurate idea of the 
duties of a man in high station than Congressman 
Madison. 

He came here from the bench. There he had exercised 
the authority of a judge. On the bench he was in action 
every day. He was the central figure in the court. His 
opinions were announced from the time the court con- 
vened in the morning until it adjourned in the evening, 
and were only subject to reversal or revision by the 
supi-eme court. It is said of his judgments that they 
were usually right. This mode of life for a number of 
years gratified that ambition that most men of ability 
and capacity possess. 



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He entered the House of Representatives, as I say, after 
a long service on the bench. He was more or less disap- 
pointed in the first few months of his service here. There 
was a lack of that exercise of power and authority to 
which he had been accustomed on the bench. He talked 
about it freely. I do not violate any confidences when I 
say that he often talked of quitting Congress and again 
resuming the practice of the law, with the ultimate idea 
of once more ascending the bench. But, being conscien- 
tious in the performance of his duties here, as elsewhere, 
he devoted himself to his work, and, one step after an- 
other, he found himself becoming more and more inter- 
ested in and connected with the work of the House. I 
do not say what I am about to say in disparagement of 
any man who enters this House as a new Member; but it 
is rare that a man with so short a service as Edmond H. 
Madison has acquired the position in this House that he 
had at the hour of his death. 

On the 18th day of September last Ed. Madison, in his 
home in Dodge City, arose at the usual hour and appa- 
rently in his usual health. He had been enjoying a few 
weeks with his friends and his constituents throughout 
the district. Eveiywhere he was met with their plaudits 
and a cordial approval of his public career. He was hav- 
ing commendation not only from his own district and 
State but from the people throughout the entire countiy. 
It is needless to say in this condition of public attitude 
toward him he felt serene as to his political future. The 
future looked exceptionally bright. 

He was happy among his people and had the confi- 
dence and esteem of them all. He was especially devoted 
to his wife and children — a devotion they fully returned — 
and on the morning of his untimely death, within three 
minutes before he expired, he was playing joyfully and 
gleefully, romping about the house, with a grandchild. 



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Address oi- Wu. Campbell, of K.\nsas 

The morning meal was announced, he seated himself in 
his usual place at the table, a few words of conversation 
were exchanged, and in an instant his head dropped for- 
ward, and before his wife could reach his side life had 
gone and Edmond H. Madison entered the portals of death. 
He had a hope that reaches beyond this life. He came 
not only from a rugged stock, but a religious stock, and 
with him we all indulge the hope in which he indulged — 
that in some other sphere he is to-day fulfilling the mis- 
sion of his life. 

Whatever is so universal as death must be a blessing. 



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Address of Mr. Russell, of Missouri 

Mr. Speaker: As his former associates and friends in 
this House we meet to-day to pay a last tribute of respect 
to the memory of Edmond H. Madison. It is fitting — yes, 
more; it is a sacred duty — that we who knew him whose 
name is now enrolled amongst the dead should bear 
public testimony to his qualities and character. 

Some have spoken and others may speak of their long 
acquaintance with him, of his private life, and profes- 
sional career prior to his service in Congress, but I did not 
know him till I met him here on the opening day of the 
Sixtieth Congress; and what I shall say must be based 
upon my information of him obtained since that time. 

But, Mr. Speaker, since our acquaintance began few, if 
any, had better opportunities to observe the character of 
his private life or to know better than I the value of his 
public services. We entered Congress together, and with 
our respective families lived at the same hotel in this city 
during the sessions of the House. We at once became 
warm friends, and frequently enjoyed friendly, social, 
and confidential intercourse. 

Judge Madison was an honest, industrious, and a faith- 
ful Representative of his constituents. To serve them well 
and acceptably was his paramount purpose and his high- 
est ambition, and to the fact that he succeeded well I, as 
his friend of a sister State, am glad to add to-day my testi- 
mony to that of his friends and colleagues of his own 
State. 

By his industry and his close attention to his official 
duties he soon became recognized as one of the useful 
Members of the House, and by reason of his ability, sound 

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Address of Mr. Riisseij,, of Missoiri 



judgment, and forcefulness in debate he later became a 
recognized leader of the House. His originality of 
thought, his independence of action, and his fearlessness 
in defending his position and in advocating the principles 
for which he stood won alike the confidence, the admira- 
tion, and the respect of both- his political friends and foes. 

I trust it will not be considered inappropriate for me 
to state that in the last extended conversation I had with 
him he very earnestly expressed his profound regret that 
the wing of the Republican Party of which he was a 
leader, known as " Insurgents," had failed to embrace 
what he believed was their greatest opportunity for 
exerting an important influence in constructive legislation 
and statesmanship when they failed to stand as a body 
by President Taft in his advocacy of the Canadian 
reciprocity bill. That was soon after its passage by 
Congress, and was, of course, before it was known or 
expected that it would be defeated by the Canadian 
Government. 

Judge Madison's death, instantaneous as it was, came 
as a shock to us all, but to none with such bitterness and 
grief as to his own devoted family in his own home, 
among whom, without a moment's warning, he was 
stricken down and transferred from the bright and cheer- 
ful expressions of animation and life to the cold and 
mysterious silence of death. 

Former Senator Vest, one of the greatest men, if not 
the greatest, that Missouri has ever produced, once said 
over the grave of a departed friend, " Every death is a 
tragedy." If the ordinary death from natural causes, 
after a lingering illness of days or weeks, is a tragedy, as 
the great Senator declared, how much more tragical was 
the sudden and unexpected demise of our friend. Judge 
Madison, who, in the midst of health, happiness, and hope, 
was suddenly stricken down by the cruel hand of death. 



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Memorial Addresses : Representative Madison 



I attended the funeral of Judge Madison at his former 
home in Dodge Citj% Kans., and witnessed there the 
unmistakable evidences of the high place he held in the 
confidence and in the hearts of his home people. The 
entire city was in mourning, the business houses were all 
closed, the schools dismissed, and 4,000 school children 
lined the streets to join in the universal expression of 
sorrow as his body was borne to and from the church. 
Sadness filled the hearts of all the people, and many of 
them wept as they spoke of the distinguished dead. 

The citizens there — men, women, and children — all 
knew him and usualy spoke of him as Ed. Madison, which 
to some might have seemed disrespectful, but to those 
of us who live in smaller cities or communities such 
familiarity is not repulsive, and especially to those of us 
who live among the associates of childhood and the 
friends of a lifetime, as such familiarity rather bears with 
it the priceless message of old and true friendship, the 
ties of which have grown stronger with the years of 
intimate association, joint responsibilities, and mutual 
sympathies. 

In this age of the world the tendencies of the aspiring 
and ambitious seem to be to seek homes and fortunes 
in the great cities and the great centers of population, 
but I have often thought, and am prone now to believe, 
that the smaller city or community is preferable as au 
ideal home; dnd as I witnessed the great respect shown 
to the memory of Judge Madison by his former neighbors 
and friends, as I heard them speak of the great value of 
his life work and his influence for good, and as I heard 
the beautiful expressions of their confidence and love for 
him in life and of their deep sorrow and the realization 
of the great loss they had sustained in his death, I was 
again deeply impressed with the belief that life in our 
smaller cities is not without its adequate compensation. 

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Address of Mr. Russell, of Missouri 



Judge Madison was prominent and influential as a citi- 
zen; he was able and just as a lawyer and a judge; he 
was an honest and a faithful Representative in Congress; 
he was active in his support of his home churches, local 
lodges, and schools; he was a kind and affectionate hus- 
band, a loving and indulgent father, and left to his family 
the priceless inheritance of a spotless name. His life was 
an inspiration to the j'outh of the land, and his noble 
traits of character were worthy of the emulation of us 
all. His home people, who knew him best, loved him; 
the honored him in life, and now mourn his death; 
and we, his former associates in this House, join with 
them in praising his many virtues and in revering his 
memory. 



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Address of Mr. Norris, of Nebraska 

Mr. Speaker: In rising in my place to pay my weak 
tribute to the memory of Judge Madison I am performing 
a duty more painful than any that has been my lot since 
I have been a Member of this House. Of all my treasured 
friendships here his was the nearest and the dearest. 
I knew his ambitions. I knew his hopes. I knew his 
fears. I learned to respect him for searching wisdom, 
to admire him for his unflinching honesty, and to love 
him for his fearless courage. From abject poverty he 
struggled on until his master mind had placed him 
among the leaders of men who stand for nobler things, 
for higher ideals. In his great heart he felt the piercing 
cry of struggling mortals. With wisdom as his guiding 
star, with justice as his spear, with honor as his shield, 
and with mercy as his watchword, he plunged into every 
struggle with a dauntless courage, utterly regardless of 
his own safety or his own welfare. His country was his 
idol, his conscience was his master, and humanity was 
his god. He never hesitated to defend what he believed 
to be right, and he always denounced evil wherever he 
found it. He believed — 

To sin by silence when we should protest 

Makes cowards out of men. The human race 

Has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised 

Against injustice, ignorance, and lust. 

The inquisition yet would serve the law 

And guillotines decide our least disputes. 

The few who dare must speak, and speak again. 

To right the wrongs of many. 



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Address or Mk. Norris, ov N'liisRASKA 

The story of his life is a glowing trihulo to courage and 
fidelity. No man in public life was better fitted to per- 
form our country's service. He knew the struggles of 
the poor. His heart responded to evei-y pulse beat of the 
honest citizen. He sympathized with humanity's just 
demands against the heartless claims of avarice and 
greed, and his analyzing mind was able to solve all the 
perplexing problems of government and of state. Beneath 
our flag there was no place of honor and of trust that 
he could not have filled with distinction and with credit. 
He served our country well, but his service and his life 
redounded to the betterment of humanity everywhere. 
But in the midst of his usefulness, in the strength of his 
magnificent manhood, with his task yet uncompleted, 
with his work yet unfinished, he was stricken down with- 
out warning and without notice. His death almost brings 
to our mortal minds a doubt of the wisdom and the jus- 
tice of Providence. 

Oh how strangely the course of nature tells, 
By her small heed of earthly suffering. 
That she was fashioned for a happier world. 

Or is it not better to say that it all reminds us of an 
immortality, a future life, where the pains and ills of 
mortal man are lost in the realms of eternal bliss; an 
immortality where — 

No grief shall gnaw the heart, 

And never shall a tender tie be broken. 

Weeping for the death of one so great, so faithful, and 
so true, we stand upon the shore of the silent river, and 
with mortal, tearful eyes we strive in vain to pierce the 
mists that rest upon its bosom and that enshroud the silent 
boatman and our departed friend upon his voyage to tlie 
unseen shore. And as we watch and wait the listening 

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ear can hear the muffled dipping sound of the returning 
oar. At our tired feet the breaking of the rippling waves 
upon the sands reminds us that soon from out those mists 
there will be seen the determined face of the ever-return- 
ing boatman bearing a summons that we must obe5\ 
While we are waiting on this shore we can best honor the 
memory of our brother who is waiting on the other shore 
by always bravely fighting what is wrong and defending 
what is right, by courageously exposing and condemning 
wickedness and crime and honoring and protecting hon- 
esty and truth, and bj' being grateful to our Creator, true 
to our country, and merciful to all humanity, so that 
when our summons comes it may be said of us, as I now 
say of him — 

One who never turned his back, but marched abreast forward; 

Never doubted clouds would break; 
Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph; 
Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better. 

Sleep to wake I 



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Address of Mr. Garrett, of Tennessee 

Mr. Speaker: When one thinks of the death of our late 
colleague there irresistibly comes to his memory tlic 
familiar lines from the favorite poem of Lincoln : 

Oh, whj' should the spirit of mortal be proud? 
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, 
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, 
Man passes from life to his rest in the grave. 

I have not had an opportunit\' to prepare that eulogy 
of our late colleague which his conspicuous merit not 
only justifies, but demands. It w^as my good fortune from 
the beginning of his service here to be thrown in close 
official and personal contact wath him. We served 
together on the Committee on Insular Affairs, on the 
special committee appointed to investigate the Sugar 
Refining Co. and others, and had begun our service 
together as members of the Committee on Rules. 

Of course, it is in the committee service, after all, that 
we have here the best opportunities for observing and 
measuring our colleagues, and from the beginning I was 
impressed with the splendid abilitj' of this splendid man. 
A part of the service on Insular Affairs during the time 
that we served together was devoted to the investigation 
of the public-land administration in the Philippine 
Islands. In that investigation, as later in the Sugar 
Refining Co. investigation, I was impressed with the 
tremendous force of the man as a lawyer, and, of course, 
was impressed there, as we were always impressed here 
on the floor of the House and everywhere we met him, 
with the fairness and sense of justice that animated him. 



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Memorial Addresses: Representative Madison 

Courage, candor, and courtesy were all blended in this 
ttian, and added to these were the superb intellect, the 
intuitive, instinctive grasp of public questions, and all 
these necessarily rendered him a leader among men. He 
would have been a leader in any body of men anywhere 
in the world. He had all the elements of leadership. 

I had some opportunities to observe his family rela- 
tions. I think it would not be possible to find in any 
home in this country or elsewhere a tenderer, sweeter, 
gentler affection than that which existed in the home and 
family of our lamented colleague. When he died his 
State suffered a distinct loss. When he died this country 
suffered a distinct loss. He was a man of ability; he was 
a man of absolute candor, and of vast and magnificent 
courage, and the Commonwealth or the country which 
loses a man who possesses these elements, coupled with 
the distinct ability which was possessed by Judge Madison, 
suffers a great loss, no matter what his partisan political 
affiliations may chance to be. 

As I said in the beginning, Mr. Speaker, I have not had 
an opportunity to prepare that eulogy which I should 
have liked to prepare for delivery upon this occasion, 
but I should have felt that I had not done right if, after 
the close and pleasant relations which existed between 
our lamented colleague and myself, I had failed to at 
least appear here to voice my appreciation of his life 
and splendid character. 



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Address of Mr. Gardner, of Massachusetts 

Mr. Speaker: During my term of service many an 
admirable Member of this House has passed away, many 
an old friend has left us behind. And yet until to-day I 
have never unasked composed a eulog>'. Such is the 
diflTiculty of formulating new words of praise that we all, 
as I believe, shrink from the reiteration of the many times 
told tale of affection and respect. 

I am sadly aware that I can not satisfy even myself by 
any words which I may speak; still for all that I have 
asked permission to record my sober grief for Madison's 
decease, my solemn pride in Madison's remembrance. 

Leadership in this House is not to be gained in a day, 
it is not to be gained by eloquence, it is not to be gained 
through favoritism, nor is it to be gained by good-fellow- 
ship. Long service, industry, thoroughness, learning, all 
help to make the leader; yet all these advantages together 
are nothing in the balance as compared with the one 
greatest quality of courage. When I see a Member of this 
House grasp a flaming brand which I do not dare to grasp, 
that Member can lead me. I saw Madison tested and he 
was not found wanting. Madison was an insurgent, Madi- 
son was a progressive, but he was an insurgent and a pro- 
gressive from conviction, not because insurgency and pro- 
gressive views were popular. All this I know, because I 
saw Madison's courage tried and proved. With a struggle 
for reelection in front of him, with an active labor vote in 
his district, I saw him rise in his place and I heard him 
condemn a labor measure which he believed to be wrong. 
There was everything for him to lose, nothing for him to 
gain. And yet, if in some happy hunting ground his spirit 

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is conscious of our homage to-day, he must know that at 
least he gained the steadfast respect of a fellow man. 

The Persians believe that for three days after the death 
of a good man the soul lingers close to his life-long friend, 
the body. On the fourth day the soul ascends in the com- 
pany of his guardian angel to render his account at the 
gate of "Chinvat Bridge." In his upward journey, float- 
ing on the soft south wind, he meets his own astral self 
transformed into an entrancing figure of seraphic beauty. 
This figure reveals itself to him as the embodiment of his 
own good thoughts, good words, and good deeds. 

Oh, if the Persian creed be true, with how transcendent 
a beauty must Madison's astral self have dazzled his pure 
white soul! 



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Address of Mr. Young, of Kansas 

Mr. Speaker: 

We know not what the future hath 

Of marvel or surprise; 
Assured alone that life and death, 

His mercy underlies. 

I regard it as a sad privilege to assist in writing into the 
permanent records of this House a tribute tliat shall help 
to garland as with evergreens and adorn as with im- 
mortelles the memorj' of the life of Edmond H. Madison, 
and with his colleagues to stand uncovered in recognition 
of the real good of life as lived by him. On occasions like 
this we labor for suitable phrases and struggle for ade- 
quate sentences to do justice to such a life, and they come 
not — then it is that the impotency of words becomes 
apparent. 

His colleagues may miss him in this Chamber, but 
Kansas most of all, for her people deeply mourn the great 
loss. Among the noted men of the Nation whom we all 
cherish Kansas, his beloved Commonwealth, has con- 
tributed many, among whom was the great commoner, 
the constructive statesman, the man of the people. Senator 
Preston B. Plumb, and that other eminent statesman, the 
matchless orator and master of the English language, who 
polished everj' word that fell from his lips until it 
reflected new meaning, embellished every phrase with 
increasing luster, and electrified every sentence with 
irresistible energ>% and before whom every adversary 
trembled in debate, whose power and dignity is but feebly 
portrayed by the artist as seen in another hall of this 
Capitol, Senator John J. Ingalls; and to-day the country 

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looks at that splendid galaxj' and sees an added star, no 
less honored, no less loved, and no less brilliant in service 
to country and humanity than they. 

It is said that life is a mystery and that death is simple 
and natural, yet the latter is always impressive. It has 
also been truthfully said that the span of life is marked 
by springtime and autumn, for if we will but lift up our 
eyes and behold under the shining canopj' this da^', we 
will see nature blossoming forth everywhere with ver- 
dure, life, and beauty. The green blades are coming 
fprth, the buds are opening, the flowers are blooming, and 
all is radiant with the mj'stery of life; and in the last 
analysis the philosopher explains it not. Travel on until 
the chills of autumn are reached, with eyes earthward 
turned, and behold the leaf is seared, the blade is no 
more, the bud is gone, and the flower is dead upon the 
stock; and all along the pathway, from spring to autumn, 
here and there, prematurely, blades decay, buds fail to 
open, flowers bloom no more, and great trees of the forest 
wither and die in midsummer; so it is in the pathway of 
human life, where, without a single note of alarm, our 
colleague fell by the wayside before the allotted time 
of man. 

Life is often called a voyage — a journey from shore to 
shore. If so, his was but half completed, for the full- 
freighted bark, with all its precious cargo, suddenly went 
down in midocean. 

" If a man die, shall he live again? " was the absorbing 
problem of the race for centuries. 

The solemn singers and tlieir songs, 
The shrouded dead, the bier and pall; 

Oh, death, mankind has waited long 
To know if death shall end it all! 



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Address of Mr. Young, of Kansas 



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And the answer did not come until a voice on the Ju- 
dean hills was heard to say, " I am the resurrection and 
the life." 

Invert the torcli and quench the light, 

And let the darksome tomb entlirall; 
The star of hope gleams through the night; 

Oh, loving hearts, death is not all. 

There is no death; the stars go down. 

To rise upon some other shore. 
And bright in heaven's jeweled crown 

They shine for evermore. 

Sharing the conviction entertained in nearly every 
breast, consciously or otherwise, that " man is immortal 
until his work is done," and being impressed with the 
magnitude of the burden resting upon his broad and un- 
tiring shoulders, and believing that public duty should 
not be at the mercy of those who gauge everj'thing from 
the standard of selfishness and ambition, but that politics 
should be a science and not a scramble, he did not hesi- 
tate to undertake any task, however great, in the interests 
of his people and State. As he toiled on, his hosts of ad- 
miring friends never even suspected any weakness to be 
lurking in his apparently robust physique which would 
soon end all and dispel their fond dreams that his career 
woiUd go on for years to come. 

Born of a lineage which has given a President to the 
country, reared by a godly father and mother in a home 
where luxurj' and idle hands were not supposed to have 
a place and where all understood and obeyed the divine 
law to go forth and earn bread by the sweat of the brow, 
he toiled at whatsoever his hands found to do, and was 
not ashamed of the grime of his hands or the garb of the 
laborer, but esteemed each the badge of honor in the sight 
of God, whom he early learned to love and serve as the 
whole duty of man. As a Cliristian, his faith and life 



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were of the stalwart, sustained, even-going order which 
neither time nor season nor environment in anywise 
affected. He was unusually familiar with the Book and 
the hymnologj' of the church, and, while not pretentiously 
pious or demonstrative, he could repeat the Book and 
sing the old familiar songs of the church with such ability 
that those who heard were charmed with the sincerity of 
his devotion to the God taught him by a sainted father 
and mother. 

As a youthful countrj' school-teacher, the first rung of 
the ladder that has raised thousands of this country's 
true loyalty to positions of loftiest eminence, and that 
marked the way of the martyred Garfield from the tow- 
path to the Presidency, he was himself a student, a 
scholar, and instructor. 

From school-teacher he passed to law student and then 
to practioner at the bar, where he soon found recognition 
as an able, trustworthy attorney, one in whom clients 
could place implicit confidence and whom courts from 
highest to lowest would hear, and to whom they gave 
full weight of consideration, respect, and accord. Chosen 
to the office of county attorney, he became the terror of 
evildoers and lawbreakers in his community, restoring 
order where lawlessness had reigned, bringing decency 
in place of dissipation, and a higher and cleaner civiliza- 
tion, which remains to this day. 

Elevated to the judgeship of the district court, he pur- 
sued the same thoroughgoing course, and no man ever 
wore the judicial ermine with more dignity and credit 
to himself or satisfaction to the lovers of law and justice. 

From the court, where he so evenly balanced the scales 
of justice between man and man, he was called by a con- 
fiding people to the greatest legislative body in the civil- 
ized world, where he exchanged the quiet of the court 
room to the fiercest forum in debate among men. Of his 

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Address of Mr. Young, of Kansas 



going in and coming out and service in this Chamber his 
colleagues are familiar. Of his life it may be truthfully 
said that he was singularly honest, conscientious, and up- 
right in all his ways; clean clear through to his soul; 
modest as a child, but bold as a hero. He was always 
active, and preformed with courage every duty that fell 
to his lot better than expected, and never disappointed; 
he was strong in thought, clear in statement, logical in 
argument, and was ever mindful of the feelings of others, 
never stooping to innuendoes or biting sarcasm to 
humiliate an opponent at the expense of the dignity of 
debate. 

He was therefore a wielder of mighty influence and the 
builder of a character so strong and towering that it 
commanded the profound respect and admiration of all 
with whom he came in contact : 

The purest treasure mortal times afford 

Is spotless reputation; that away, 

Men are but gilded loam or painted clay; 

A jewel in a ten times barred up chest 

Is a right spirit in a loyal breast; 

Mine honor is my life; both grew in one; 

Take honor from me and my life is done. 

Antony's saying that " the evil men do lives after them," 
if true, would leave such men as Edmond H. Madison with- 
out memory among men. But it is not true. The good 
men do is their monument, and it lasts forever. 

The heritage that he has left us in his flawless character 
and unsullied reputation, and the love and esteem in 
which he came to be held, not only by his colleagues but 
at home and abroad, is a more coveted distinction than 
the gift of the greatest office in the land and comes to the 
countrj' in these times with a peculiar and indescribable 
benediction, the memory of which will be as pleasant as 
the murmur of a low fountain stealing forth in the midst 



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of roses or the soft, sweet accents of an angel's whisper in 
the bright dreams of innocence. 
Edmond H. Madison is gone, and we may long 

For the touch of a vanished hand 
And the sound of a voice that is still; 

and we are disappointed, yet somewhere, somehow, we 
feel there is a shoreless beyond, where no shadows fall, 
which is cooled by the perfume of Eden's flowers of every 
hue, that can not wither and shall not fade, and in that 
realm he has found that restful emploj'ment so beauti- 
fully described by Kipling: 

When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and 

dried. 
When the oldest colors have faded, and the youngest critic has 

died. 
We shall rest and, faith, we shall need it — lie down for an seon 

or two, 
Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew. 

And those that were good shall be happy; they shall sit in a 

golden chair; 
They shall splash at a ten-league canvas with brushes of comet's 

hair; 
They shall find real saints to draw from — Magdalene, Peter, and 

Paul; 
They shall work for an age at a sitting and never be tired at all. 

And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall 

blame, 
And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for 

fame; 
But each for the joy of the working, and each in his separate star, 
Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as 

They Are. 



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Address of Mr. Murdock, of Kansas 

Mr. Speaker: Over and above his great qualities — he 
was splendid in mental equipment, strong in conviction, 
quick in perception, alert to the inspirations of debate, 
and vigorous in his advocacy of a cause — there was an- 
other element in the late Edmond Madison which made the 
high place attained by him in public affairs remarkable. 
For while the attributes which Mr. Madison possessed in 
superlative degree bring men into prominence congres- 
sionally, we know the process is usually slow. With Mr. 
Madison the attainment was rapid. He had but two terms 
in Congress. Yesterday he was a stranger here; to-day 
known of all men. Quickly as he ascended, he was sure 
in every step upward, and there was no man's future in 
public life, before the black curtain fell between him and 
its splendors, more certain than his. 

I remember his youth, for his start in life was in my 
county. Thirty years ago he was teaching school near 
Wichita — busy with the minds of an interesting group of 
children in Cook's schoolhouse, a red brick building, 
small, squat, solitary, and asleep in the sunshine beside a 
dusty prairie road. Eventually he came to town and 
studied law in the office of a pioneer, G. W. C. Jones, and 
when admitted to the bar he moved westward to Dodge 
City, where he rose quickly in public place and popular 
esteem from county attorney to district judge, from dis- 
trict judge to Congressman. 

From the very beginning of his career he loved a cam- 
paign. The rostrum inspirited him. Happiness was his 
at the soldiers' reunions, at the harvest picnics, and before 
the critical audiences that gather in the court rooms in 
the smaller towns of western Kansas. And in a State con- 



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vention, in a nominating speech, he won early in liis 
career a reputation that soon became State wide. 

This gift of speech in him, and the joy of him in it, he 
brought to Washington and to Congress with some fear. 
We have talked often about it. His first speech here was 
a success, and from that moment his rise in Congress was 
signal. And yet that moment was to him, as it must be 
to all, one of anxiety and of quickening pulse — an ordeal. 
Yet the success of his first effort here, besides revealing 
to the membership the presence of a new strong mind, 
was in a way an epitome of his career, and, so far as a 
single individual can reflect it, the ever-recurring, fasci- 
nating story of the democracy as it is developed at every 
session of Congress. 

The House is never the sum of the individuals who 
comipose it; it is in its aggregate something more, some- 
thing less, and something quite different. It seems at 
times as elemental in its emotional equipment as a child, 
as quick in its reactions, as instinctive and as fanciful. 
If the mood be upon it, the House, in appreciative and 
responsive attention, can be the most subtly flattering of 
audiences, and it can be also unspeakably cruel and re- 
fined in applying the torture of its indifference. The 390 
men, in this ability to listen sympathetically, are as any 
other audience similar in size; but the 390 men, as an 
audience that listens for a moment to a new Member and 
rejects the speaker, often without reason, displays a cru- 
elty impossible in any ordinary audience or, indeed, in 
any one of the individuals present. A new Member of 
Congress ordinarily recognizes the capacity of the House 
for this unconscious cruelty. He is also impressed and 
oppressed, as a rule, with the thought that the House is 
highly sensitive to first impressions and tenacious of them, 
once formed. His whole future, it often seems to him, 
may be wrecked upon a single effort. 



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Address oi IMh. Mikdock, of Kansas 



There is, then, an added wreath to the victory of the 
first speech here when the idle glance the House turns at 
the sound of a strange voice evolves slowly from curiosity 
into interest and from interest into eager attention. 
There are many manifestations in this group of men wlio 
congregate under the rule of a restless and unavailing 
gavel, but there is none so close to a miracle as the mar- 
velous silence of the noisy House when its interest com- 
mands silence. He who wins that silence by his elo- 
quence, his logic, his information, has won a victory. 
There is no denying its sweetness. 

Our colleague, Mr. Madison, won it in his first speech — 
one dealing with the writ of injunction, a difBcult sub- 
ject — and he never sued for attention again in vain. 

He won it by a certain remarkable gift, strongly evident 
in this speech— in fact, in all his longer addresses here— 
the gift of clarity of statement. If there be a technical 
definition for this in dialectics, I do not know it, but Mr. 
Madison had a method of weaving his argument into the 
fine fabric of his statement with such skill that an oppo- 
nent who granted any part of the premise was liable to 
be taken into camp, bound hand and foot. I have not 
seen this gift in anyone in the degree in which Mr. Madi- 
son possessed it, here or elsewhere. It will be remem- 
bered by those who listened to his speeches on the writ 
of injunction, on the corporation tax, and on the rules of 
the House. 

In the possession of this particular gift and what he 
wrought here with it, and his other attributes revealed in 
the consideration and debate of public questions, is the 
story of democracy as we see it unfold here day by day, as 
our friend Madison saw it and eagerly shared in its 
development. Since any one of us has been in Congress 
the personality of Mr. Madison stands distinct. That 
personality has not been repeated, and will not be. His 



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tjrpe had not gone before and it will not come again. 
No two Congresses are alike. Each differs from its 
predecessors and from its successors. And this is as 
much because of the change of membership as of the 
change in political issues. The forms and usages of 
Congress — indeed, the brevity of tenure alone — would 
seem to doom all who come to be reshaped in a certain 
monotonous mold. But character, temperament, individ- 
uality persist. The variation of types the House shows is 
endless, and this circumstance changes the complexion 
of Congresses, and in the curious intermingling of 
personality and issue in debate gives color to the one and 
identity to the other; for in the House, as on the hustings, 
we personify our principles and look once at the platform 
and twice at the candidate. 

Mr. Madison was of the strong individualistic type. 
This was his characteristic, and the roots of it ran far 
back. As he was, so were his foreb'ears. They were 
pioneers. The fiber of self-reliance they gave him he 
strengthened. Noble in mipulse, gentle and just in 
counsel, kindly in controversy, there was a certain large- 
ness in his vision and broadness in his convictions that 
clothed him with extraordinary power among his col- 
leagues. That power grew with its exercise and was 
making for Mr. Madison, when he passed suddenly from 
among us, a more and more brilliant future in national 
life. 

His district was the country of earth and sky — prairies 
that stretch floor-flat far to the unbroken circle of the 
horizon; a sky unobstructed and undiminished, answering 
to the magnitude and majesty of the plains. He loved the 
spell of the prairies. He longed often, when we talked 
together here in Washington, for the restful silence of 
the counti-y that brings in its very monotony of landscape 



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Address of IMr. Murdoch, ok Kansas 

a man into closer relations with tlie profundities and 
nearer nature and nature's God. 

He has passed on quickly from among us into the 
shadows where for each of us a grave is hidden. From 
out the dark there conies to us no guiding cry. Yet from 
somewhere in the silences — the silences that lie between 
the quick and the dead — sounds the earnest that is higher 
than hope, deeper than belief, the earnest that echoes 
always in the soul of the quick — that the dead live — the 
earnest tliat the spirit of our friend, the character it 
adorned, are and can not be of time, the earnest that they 
are and must be of eternity. 

Mr. Russell. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Kansas 
[Mr. Neeley] , the successor of Judge Madison, is unavoid- 
ably absent on account of official business, and I ask the 
special privilege for him that he may extend his remarks 
in the Record upon the life and cliaractcr of Mr. Madison. 

The Speaker pro tempore. Without objection, it will be 
so ordered. 

There was no objection. 

Mr. Campbell. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent 
that all Members of the House who so desire may extend 
in the Record remarks on the subject of the life, char- 
acter, and public services of the late Edmond H. Madison. 

The Speaker pro tempore. The gentleman from Kansas 
asks unanimous consent that all Members who so desire 
may extend in the Record remarks upon the life, char- 
acter, and public services of the late Edmond H. Madison. 
Is there objection? 

There was no objection, and it was so ordered. 

The Speaker pro tempore. In accordance with the reso- 
lution previously agreed to, and as a further mark of 
respect to the deceased, the House will now adjourn. 

Accordingly (at 1 o'clock and 12 minutes p. m.) the 
House adjourned until to-morrow, Monday, April 15, 1912, 
at 12 o'clock noon. 

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Address of Mr. Neeley, of Kansas 

Mr. Speaker: It was not my privilege to be well and 
personally acquainted with the late Mr. Madison, I having 
met him only three or four times, although, from the 
very nature of things, I knew a great deal of his personal 
and political history. The first time I met him was at 
the old soldiers' reunion at Dodge City, in August, 1910, 
where I went, upon his invitation as chairman of the 
committee on speakers, as his political opponent, to 
deliver an address to the old soldiers gathered at their 
annual State reunion. He impressed me then as a good 
type of the country judge; a man of strong mentality, of 
deep conviction, and one who had a strong hold upon the 
affections of the people of his district. 

Mr. Madison's life was a somewhat varied and a very 
active one. Some 25 years ago he homesteaded a piece 
of land near the town of Ford, in Ford County, Kans., 
which was then considered to be far out on the Great 
American Desert. I am told by men who lived on the 
plains at that time that one of the most beautiful scenes 
on the Western Continent in the spring of the year was 
that almost level, seemingly endless stretch of green 
sward running up the Arkansas River Valley, flanked on 
each side by an elevation of hills that marked the line 
where the earth and sky seemed to meet, and dotted here 
and there by great herds of cattle and buffalo commin- 
gling together. It may have been a scene like this that 
fascinated the young man from Illinois, causing him to 
cast his lot with these men who were laying the founda- 
tion for an empire. 

But in the summer the scene changes. The grasshop- 
pers come, the hot wii,ds blow, and the swarms of insects 

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Address of Mr. Neeley, of Kansas 



and the onslaught of nature caused the prospects of a 
bountiful harvest to rapidly disappear, and the young 
man forsakes the farm for awhile to take up the occupa- 
tion of school-teaching. It was during this time that he 
took up the study of law, and soon after his admission 
to the bar was elected prosecuting attorney of Ford 
County, and at the expiration of his term was reelected. 
From this time on his rise was rapid. He had taken his 
place among the lawj'ers of the district and had earned 
the reputation of being clear-headed, forceful in expres- 
sion, and a prodigious worker, so that at the expiration of 
his second term as prosecuting attorney, he was elevated 
to the position of judge of the district court, later being 
reelected to this position and serving his people until the 
time of the division of what was the old seventh congres- 
sional district into the seventh and eighth districts, at 
which time he was nominated and elected to Congress. 

The excellent judgment and the power of clear 
analysis that had been such a strong asset of Mr. Madi- 
son while serving as prosecuting attorney and district 
judge soon caused him to be recognized as one of his 
party's leaders in Congress, while his disposition to rec- 
ognize and endeavor to reconcile the conflicting opinions 
of his associates upon both sides of the Chamber gave 
him an independence of thought and action that made 
him a tower of strength to the cause he represented. 

Mr. Madison's services in the Ballinger investigation 
were of inestimable value to the country. His conclu- 
sions, being as they were practically the same as those 
reached by his Democratic colleagues in that investiga- 
tion, were undoubtedly accepted by the country as being 
free from the taint of party prejudice, and as the findings 
of fact of a man capable and qualified and above sus- 
picion of personal interest. 



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So faithfully did he perform his services in this matter, 
that when it became necessary to investigate the Sugar 
Trust he was the unanimous choice of all the factions of 
his party for that important position, and had just com- 
pleted his services when the stmimons came. 

It was my privilege to be Mr. Madison's opponent in the 
campaign of 1910, and, although it was perhaps the 
hardest fought campaign since the days of Jerry Simpson, 
it is a pleasure to me now to know that it was a campaign 
of issues and not of personalities, and was conducted 
without the bitterness that usually attends such contests. 
And I now look back with a great deal of satisfaction 
upon the fact that while I often criticized some of his 
votes and doubted the wisdom of some of his actions, 
naught but the highest motives and loftiest patriotism 
could ever be imputed to him. 

After the returns had begun to come in, and indicated 
that Mr. Madison had been reelected, I sent him a mes- 
sage of congratulation upon his success; and I remember 
very distinctly the reply he sent, which was character- 
istic of the man. It was — 

I was very glad indeed to receive your message and to know 
that you wish me well in the term that is soon to begin, because 
no one can doubt that it was a genuine battle between real men 
over live issues in the old, big seventh this year. 

Fearless and courageous in life, intensely loyal to those 
whose privilege it was to enjoy his friendship, battling 
for the right as he saw the right, his death has robbed his 
district of a sincere friend and the Nation of an able 
man. 



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Address of Mr. Martin, of Colorado 

Tuesday, March 4, 1913. 

Mr. Speaker: I come to lay forget-me-nots upon the 
shrine of the memory of my friend and colleague, Ed. 
Madison, to refer to an incident in our earlier lives that 
eventually touched our hearts into deep and satisfying 
fellowship, and to say a final word as a Memher of Con- 
gress, from which 1 am now about to retire, for reasons to 
which I shall allude only briefly and impersonally, and as 
they affect many of the Members of Congress, living and 
dead. 

Twenty years ago a young locomotive fireman whiled 
away a long lay-over at Dodge City, Kans., by sitting in 
the rear of the court room and listening to the trial of a 
case. Unused to such scenes it made a deep impression 
upon him — the solemnity of it, the learned ability of the 
judge on the bench, the forensic combats of the lawj'ers 
at the bar, the tense interest of the community; but he 
was particularly impressed with the personality and 
ability of the leading lawyer for the defense, a young 
man, black haired, clean shaven, square of jaw and 
shoulder, the music of a strong, keen voice tuned to the 
pitch and playing the scale of natural orator\% definiteness 
and precision in his method, weight, and compelling in 
his manner. 

They did not meet, the fireman and the lawyer, but the 
former went his way with the clear image of the latter 
graven upon his memory by eyes of desire; and many 
times afterwards his mind went back to the scene in the 
court room and its central figure. As the years went by 
he often thought of the young la^vJ'er and made inquiry, 

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learning first that he liad become district judge and finally 
that he had been elected to Congress; but still they did 
not meet, and never met until, after the lapse of 16 years, 
they met in this Chamber as the Representatives of 
adjoining States and contiguous congressional districts. 

It Is the commonest triteism that truth is stranger than 
fiction, for no sane imagination, projecting itself from 
the little court room, could have foreseen the day when the 
young la\\yer, as a distinguished Member of Congress, 
would be making what proved to be his last speech upon 
the floor of the House, and having as a warm friend and 
colleague among the assembled Members his unknown 
auditor of that other daj'. 

But the people of that prairie communit}^ had gone 
down into the sand hills of the Arkansas, and in a little 
prairie schoolhouse had found a young lawyer-teacher, 
had called him into the public service, and had seen that 
with each advance he justified their estimate and en- 
larged their concept of his worth until, in his all too brief 
tenure in the Halls of Congress, he had risen distinctly 
into leadership and had begun to make his impress, not 
only upon his colleagues regardless of party, but upon 
the political institutions and the legislation of this great 
countrJ^ 

It is a romance and it is a marvel, yet it is so common 
that we may easily overlook its deep significance, for 
it typifies America and spells her enduring greatness. 
Her imperishable hope and her indestructible guaranty 
is the capacity for leadership, for statesmanship, resident 
in the body politic; the Ed. Madisons in the little school- 
houses, in the little court rooms, on the farms, on the 
railroads, in the mines and mills, everj'where and in all 
callings and walks of life, fitting for and awaiting the 
summons to higher service. Surely we have only to look 



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Address of Mr. Martin, ok Colorado 



about us for undoubting assurance that no matter how 
deep and dark the valleys of our national life, how high 
and forbidding its steeps, we shall level those lifts and 
pass on to greater and yet greater heights. 

But I have not yet summed up the value as a statesman 
of our departed friend and colleague. It was not all in 
his physical impress, not all in his magnetic personality, 
not all in his natural gift of oratory or his ability in 
debate, not all in his integrity and courage of conviction, 
though he had all these attributes in rich measure. 
Above all these his distinguishing characteristics was 
sound judgment. This rarest of faculties, even in men 
of the greatest gifts, equaled the sum of all his other gifts, 
was the crowning attribute of the man, and, added to 
these others assured him high and yet higher place in the 
councils of the Nation. 

But in the morning of a statesman's career and in the 
forefront of the fray which still rends our national 
political life, and with heart and brain teeming with the 
problems pressing for solution, broken by the burden, 
he fell as a soldier falls, as so many of his colleagues have 
fallen, and was laid to rest, his mourners all who knew 
him, his couch the brown bosom of his western plains, 
his shroud the waving prairie blue stem, his requiem 
the prairie's ever-blowing winds. He has gone whence 
he came. 

A Ship of Mist sailed out of a cloud, 
Out of a cloud at the sunrise time; 
The glint of the dawn was on sail and shroud, 

The glint of the dawn of the sunrise clime. 
Into the blue from the harbor gray, 
Into the blue of the living day, 
Into the vast, she sailed away. 

"Ahoy, lone sailor; what of the voyage?" 
"I've neither chart nor bearing, friend." 



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A Ship of Mist sailed into a cloud, 

Into a cloud at the sunset time; 
The shade of the dusk was on sail and shroud, 

The shade of the dusk of the sunset clime. 
Into the gloom with the dying light, 
Into the gloom of the endless night. 
Into the vast, she sailed from sight. 

"Ahoy, lone sailor; what of the voyage?" 
" I'm past the care of caring, friend." 

But let me digress a moment from the be-aten path of 
individual eulogies; let me come close to other thoughts 
and feelings that press upon my heart and mind. During 
this term of Congress this has been many times a house 
of mourning. If every seat in this Chamber vacated by 
death during this term of Congress were draped with its 
sable emblems, it would present a most solemn spectacle. 
And if this spectacle could be seen by the country and 
its significance understood, it would give pause to much 
criticism. But even these vacant chairs and black-suited 
desks would not take the toll of those who fall here, and 
whose seats are vacated and whose careers are ended 
or broken by the strain, as surely as those who pay as 
well the forfeit of life itself. Beyond doubt a congres- 
sional career is now in its demands the most severe and 
exacting of all careers. The life of a Congressman has 
become a ceaseless struggle. He is in Congress fighting, 
or at home campaigning, keyed always to high pitches of 
feeling and effort, and besieged always with demands 
which grow witli his ability to feed them. 

I have little patience with the popular witticisms about 
the life in Congress, its ease, its emoluments, its pleasures. 
The truth is. Congress in its personnel typifies largely the 
survival of the fittest, and is made up in the main of men 
who would not remain in public life a single day were it 
not for the great honor which is the due of that greatest 



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Address of Mh. Martin, or Coi^orado 

of all services in the cause of liiiman progress — public 
service. 

Although a poor man, I would despise myself to think 
that I came to Congress for its ease, its emoluments, or 
its pleasui-es. I came because the seed was born in me 
and because the honor of its service was the ambition 
of my life. And when I say tliis of myself I state what I 
believe to be the rule and not the exception. I shall go 
hence, reserving the right and discharging the duty to 
criticize the public acts of the Members of Congress, but 
with respect born of knowledge and experience for the 
lot of the Congressman, the great and varied measure of 
his duties, the cankering character of liis responsibilities, 
the integrity of his motives, and the courage of his actions, 

I have not spoken of Mr. Madison in his private life as a 
husband, father, and citizen, but I know that in these 
relations he was all that we hope for our own, and the 
cottage in which he dwelt, surrounded by wife and chil- 
dren, was enshrined in the hearts of unenvious friends 
and neighbors, to all of whom his public career was an 
unmixed pride and his death a personal loss. Measured 
by dollars, he died a poor man; but, measured by deeds, 
he lived a rich life, and left to his family and kindred 
the legacy of that good name which is more to be desired 
than great wealth, to struggling youth the stimulus and 
example of his own climb from obscurity to eminence, to 
his friends the memory of a just man whose light shone 
brighter with increase of radius, and to the archives of 
his country the record of a faithful and efficient public 
servant. 

Having spent the last years of my boyhood upon a 
farm in the district which he later represented in Con- 
gress, and which has been the home of my people for 
30 years, and where my mother sleeps, having passed the 
first years of my manhood upon a railway division of 

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which his home city was a terminal, having had the honor 
at his invitation of being the guest of that community, 
and being bound to it all by so many tender ties, it is to 
me a peculiarly sad privilege and pleasure to pay his 
character and memory this tribute of my esteem and love, 
and not inappropriate, I trust, in the light of all the cir- 
cumstances, to have enlarged upon it by personal and 
related references and by touching upon a phase of life 
in the National Congress which so nearly concerns so 
many of its Meinbers. 

To the family of Edmond H. Madison, who must con- 
tinue the unmarked way of life without his strong, sure, 
and protecting guidance, I wish all the solace and strength 
that may come from the contemplation of all that he 
was to them, to the community, and to the country; and 
to those who are to tarry yet a little time upon the scenes 
where his labors have closed I wish health, honor, and 
achievement while in the arena of public action and 
peace and content when they retire. 



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Proceedings in the Senate 

Tuesday, December 5, 1911. 

The President pro tempore (Mr. Curtis). The Chair 
lays before the Senate resolutions from the House of 
Representatives, which will be read. 

The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows: 

Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of Hon. Edmond H. Madison, late a Representative from 
the State of Kansas. 

Resolved, That the Clerk of the House be directed to transmit a 
copy of these resolutions to the Senate. 

Mr. Bristow. Mr. President, I offer the resolutions 
which I send to the desk and ask for their adoption. 

The President pro tempore. The Senator from Kansas 
offers resolutions, which will be read. 

The resolutions were read, considered by unanimous 
consent, and unanimously agreed to, as follows: 

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow the 
announcement of the death of the Hon. Edmond H. M.\dison, late 
a Representative from the State of Kansas. 

Resolved, That the Secretary be directed to communicate a copy 
of these resolutions to the House of Representatives. 

Mr. Brown. Mr. President, as a further mark of respect 
to the memory of the deceased Member, I move that the 
Senate adjourn. 

The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at 3 
o'clock and 12 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until 
Thursday, December 7, 1911, at 2 o'clock p. m. 

Saturday, January 11, 1913. 
Mr. Curtis. I desire to give notice that on Saturday, 
February 8, 1913, I will ask the Senate to consider resolu- 

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tions commemorative of the life, high character, and 
public services of Hon. Edmond H. Madison and Hon. A. C. 
Mitchell, late Members of the House of Representatives 
from the State of Kansas. 

Saturday, February 8, 1913. 

The Chaplain, Rev. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, D. D., offered 
the following prayer : 

Eternal God, our heavenly Father, as we stand before 
Thee on this day of precious memory we thank Thee that 
life is not so short that we can not for a time lay aside our 
customary labors and yield ourselves to the tender and 
holy influences of this hour. As here we stand in Thy 
presence, we would take the shoes from off our feet, 
knowing that where Thy servants have faithfully and 
truly sought to do Thy will there indeed is holy ground. 
Here manifest Thyself unto our waiting spirits, we pray 
Thee, and fulfill unto us Thy promise that where Thy 
children are gathered together in Thy name there Thou 
wilt be in their midst. 

O Thou who art God, not of the dead but of the living, 
seeing that all souls live unto Thee, we thank Thee, not 
as we would but as we are able, for the blessed privilege 
of having known and labored with him whom we Jhis 
day commeinorate. Inspire our hearts, quicken our 
memories, and direct our thoughts, that the life which we 
would now honor may stand before us with all its power 
and in all its beauty. That life was Thine, our Father, 
and Thine it is. We yield Thee all praise, Holy One, 
for the priceless heritage of the memory of him whose 
life is now hid with Christ in Thee. 

We pray Thee to be near to those to whom this life was 
most dear and to comfort those whose tender sorrow is 
too great for words and too deep for tears. Uphold them 
with Thy heavenly power and let Thy grace be sufiicient 

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for lliem until we, too, stand in Tiiy nearer presence, 
where we shall know even as we have been known. 

And unto Thee, our God, who hast loved us with an 
everlasting love and hast called us into Thine eternal 
kingdom in Christ, unto Thee who hast given us eternal 
comfort and good hope through the Gospel, be all glory 
and praise on earth and in heaven, now and forevermore. 
Amen. 

Mr. Curtis. Mr. President, I ask the Chair to lay before 
the Senate resolutions from the House of Representatives 
on the death of the late Representative Madison. 

The Presiding Officer (Mr. McLean in the chair). The 
Chair lays before the Senate resolutions from the House 
of Representatives, which will be read. 

The Secretai-y read the resolutions, as follows: 

In the House of Represent.\tives, 

April li, 1912. 

Resolved, That tlie business of the House be now suspended 
that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of 
Hon. Edmond H. AL\dison, late a Member of this House from the 
State of Kansas. 

Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the memory 
of the deceased and in recognition of his distinguished public 
career the House, at the conclusion of these exercises, shall stand 
adjourned. 

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 

Senate. 

Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to 
the family of the deceased. 

Mr. Curtis. Mr. President, I offer the resolutions which 
I send to the desk and ask for their adoption. 

The Presiding Officer. The Senator from Kansas offers 
resolutions which will be read. 



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The resolutions (S. Res. 459) were read, considered by 
unanimous consent, and unanimously agreed to, as 
follows : 

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep sorrow of the 
death of Hon. Edmond H. Madison, late a Member of the House 
of Representatives from the State of Kansas. 

Resolved, That as a mark of respect to the memory of the 
deceased, the business of the Senate be suspended in order that 
proper tribute may be paid his liigh character and distinguished 
public services. 

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate a copy of these 
resolutions to the House of Representatives and to the family of 
the deceased. 



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Address of Mr. Curtis, of Kansas 

Mr. President: One year ago it was my sad duty to 
make formal announcement here of the death of Hon. 
E. H. Madison. He was elected to Congress from the 
seventh Kansas district in November, 190G. In his service 
he won the hearts of his colleagues and was rapidly 
gaining high place among the leaders of the greatest 
legislative body in the world, the House of Repre- 
sentatives. He did not gauge legislation from the stand- 
point of a lawyer, but settled questions more as a judge, 
trying always to harmonize any differences which might 
exist. This fact arose from his experience upon the 
bench. He was recognized as one of the most fair and 
just judges who ever graced the bench in the district 
courts of Kansas^ 

He was born at Plymouth, 111., December 18, 1865; was 
educated in the common schools of Illinois, and at the 
age of 18 years began teaching school; in 1885 moved to 
Wichita, Kans., and began the study of law in the office 
of G. W. C. Jones, and was admitted to practice in 1888; 
in the same year was elected county attorney of Ford 
County, Kans., and served two terms; was appointed 
judge of the thirty-first judicial district of Kansas Jan- 
uary 1, 1900, which position he held until September 17, 
1906, when he resigned to become a candidate for Con- 
gress; was married December 12, 1900, to Miss Lou Vance. 

Mr. Madison was a profound student of all questions 
before the people, and while he was a Republican, he 
could not be considered as radical. He was independent 
in his convictions and believed differences could be har- 
monized without resort to extremes. He was loved by 

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those who knew him, and there were thousands who 
mourned his death. Among his friends — and he had 
many — he was affectionately known as and called " Ed.," 
and he seemed to enjoy such informal recognition from 
those who were close to him. In his home life he was at 
his best and most tender and considerate in his family 
relations. 

It was with the deepest satisfaction that Mr. Madison 
entered upon the duties of his congressional office. I 
need not tell you of his able service in the House. His 
work speaks for itself. His death was unexpected and a 
shock to his family, friends, and neighbors. He had just 
returned to his home at Dodge City, Kans., and had spent 
but a day or two among his acquaintances, when he was 
suddenly stricken. His life went out, but he left us an 
example of how well we should live, for his character 
was too strong to yield to the allurements and weaknesses 
or overindulgences of luxury or wealth. 

In the light of the life and example of Mr. Madison, we 
refute any assertion to the effect that the days of honesty, 
of honor, of high ideals are over, and we may further 
assert that he has given us proof that the underlying 
moral firmness of character among our people assures 
the future welfare of the Republic. 



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Address of Mr. Jones, of Washington 

Mr. President: We stand on the bank of life's river 
and watch the mystic bark take from our shore its pas- 
sengers on a voyage from which there is no return, and 
we are lost in speculation. The wisdom that takes the 
strong and leaves the weak, that takes the wise and leaves 
the foolish, that takes the pure and leaves the vile, that 
takes the good and leaves the bad, that takes the young 
and leaves the old is beyond our ken. The passengers 
have no choice. The why, the wherefore they are taken 
comes only at the end of the voyage. Those behind gaze 
upon a solemn mystery which each must solve alone with 
the dreaded boatman. 

Judge Madison was one of earth's choicest spirits. He 
was strong in body, brilliant in intellect, noble in char- 
acter, great in high aims and lofty purposes. He was 
logical in thought, clear in expression, and courageous 
in following his convictions. Responsive to the popular 
will, he was nevertheless honest with him.self and true 
to his settled convictions of dutj\ He loved his country 
with an intense love, and the welfare of its people was 
his highest aim. He was an ideal Representative, loyal 
to his people, faithful to his trust, able and fearless in 
expressing and advocating his views, and devoted to those 
policies which he believed to be for the good of all. 

Taken in his prime at the very threshold of his useful- 
ness by an all-wise Providence, perchance to a grander, 
nobler life, more suited to his great abilities and lofty 
ambitions, he has left to those who knew him an inspira- 
tion to greater and better things, and his life and achieve- 
ments .should stimulate the youth of the land lo lofty 

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endeavor and noble purpose. To have known him is a 
precious memory, to emulate him a nobler ambition. 

" He belongs to the ages," thus wisely one said. 
As they wept by his form when the spirit had fled. 
Then the ages grew richer with treasure untold, 
As the scroll of their pages before him unrolled, 
And he lives in their life, an immortal sublime. 
While the tides of eternity roll upon time. 



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Address of Mr. Bristow, of Kansas 

Mr. President: Edmond H. Madison was an able lawyer, 
a strong debater, a wise legislator, and brilliant orator. 
He believed in the people and had a deep interest in their 
welfare. With a strong and commanding mind he also 
possessed a warm heart. Nothing touched him more 
deeply than the struggles which the western Kansas 
farmer had gone through to reclaim the desert and 
transform its parched plains into fruitful fields. He 
could entertain his friends for hours telling stories of 
the struggles of different men whom he had known in 
the days of the early settlement in the southwestern part 
of our State. It was the highest ambition of his life to 
do something that would help these men and make life 
for them more successful and less burdensome. 

Mr. Madison was born on December 18, 1865, at 
Plymouth, 111., and moved to Kansas in 1885. In his 
early life he was a school-teacher. While teaching 
school he studied law, and in 1888 was admitted to the 
bar at Wichita, Kans., and moved to Dodge City later 
in that year. Because of his unusual ability and admi- 
rable personal qualities he was elected the same year 
to the office of county attorney of Ford County, which was 
an unusual thing to occur in local poUtics. At that time 
he was only 23 years of age ; it was the first year of his 
residence within the county and the first year of the 
practice of his profession. He filled the office with entire 
satisfaction, and two years thereafter was nominated and 
elected for a second term. 

In the early days of his career he was known through- 
out the southwestern part of Kansas as the " boy orator." 

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He had great personal popularity as well as fine ora- 
torical talent, and was in demand as a public speaker at 
all kinds of gatherings and especially in political cam- 
paigns. On January 1, 1900, he was appointed by Gov. 
Stanley to a vacancy on the district bench, which position 
he held until September 17, 1906. That year a redistrict- 
ing of the State had resulted in the division of the seventh 
congressional district, and Congressman Murdock was 
taken out of that district, which he then represented, and 
placed in the new eighth district, leaving a vacancy in 
the seventh. Madison was nominated by the Republic- 
ans and triumphantly elected. He was reelected in 1908 
and 1910, and would still be representing that district 
in Congress if it had not been for his untimely death. 

In legislation he always sought to do that which he 
felt was right, and was also exceedingly eager to please 
his constituents. He felt keenly their criticism, and while 
the fear of it would not swerve him from what he believed 
to be his line of duty, yet it pained him very much to have 
any of them think that he had done the wrong thing. 
He was sensitive to the good opinions of his fellow men, 
but he would not sacrifice his conscience to obtain them. 
It seeins to me that such qualities are of the highest order, 
and go to make up the ideal representative of a district 
of freemen in a legislative assembly. 

He had brilliant intellectual qualities, clear and cool 
judgment, fine discriminating ability, and a sensitive con- 
science, and was possessed with a general affection for 
mankind. These very admirable traits of character made 
his duties at times burdensome and painful, yet they 
resulted in giving a direction to his official life that was 
wise and patriotic. 

Ed. Madison, as he was familiarly known, was a favor- 
ite in every community in his district. The people 



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were always deliglited to see him, and would assemble 
in large numbers at any place and upon any occasion 
where he was to speak. 

The most conspicuous service that he rendered his 
country was in the Ballinger investigation. In that trj'- 
ing experience of his ofiicial life he discharged his duty 
with independence and without bias. He would not per- 
mit fear of political punishment or hope of reward 
to change his attitude on a matter of public concern. 
During the months of heated factional strife which that 
investigation produced he held an even and steady course, 
and after the controversy was over his report was ac- 
cepted by the country as an accurate ])ortrayal of the 
facts and conditions in the case. It in truth determined 
the ultimate results of the controversy, and in this in- 
vestigation he rendered a service of great value to his 
country. 

He was one of my warmest political friends, and I feel 
very deeply his loss. His father was a Methodist min- 
ister and so was mine. Our boyhood days were cast in 
a similar environment and such experiences knit men 
closely together. I shall never forget the day of his 
funeral. The winds that swept the prairies seemed to 
mourn his loss. Cut off without warning in the prime 
of a brilliant and useful life, he left a sorrowing district, 
and the thousands that gathered to pay their last respect 
to their departed friend was the most effective evidence 
of the high esteem in which he was held. 

Mr. Curtis. Mr. President, I offer the resolution whicli 
I send to the desk. 

The Presiding Officer. The resolution will be read. 
The Secretary read the resolution, as follows: 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
the deceased Senators Robeut Love Taylor and George S. Nixon 



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and deceased Representatives Edmond H. Madison and Alexander 
C. Mitchell, the Senate do now adjourn. 

The resolution was unanimously agreed to; and (at 2 
o'clock and 47 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until 
Monday, February 10, 1913, at 12 o'clock meridian. 



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